Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Fedora - CVE-2015-0278
Published: May 18, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40789
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0278
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Affected software:
Fedora
Fedora
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0278
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0186.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:228
- https://github.com/libuv/libuv/commit/66ab38918c911bcff025562cf06237d7fedaba0c
- https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/215
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/libuv/0JZxwLMtsMI/jraczskYWWQJ
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10